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Originally Posted by ottopilot
You're right. Are you really surprised?
The question I have is...
...would you raise equal indignation toward a democrat for the same reasons?
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In order to raise "equal indignation toward a democrat for the same reasons",,,
...I would have to first be aware that it happened....I'd be extremely surprised to read that a sitting US VP with a democratic party affiliation had publicly praised and met with....more than once.... a prominent foreign political figure on record for advocating the killing, "week in, week out", of American troops, or that a democratic US president had also met with such an objectionable person. If a "democratic did it"....and did not explain to us why someone could say such provocative things about our troops, and about the US president himself, and his motives...... and still be in the apparent "good graces" of the president and his VP.....I would have no reason not to be as outraged at democrats acting in this manner....than I am, now......
In this case....there is a near total US "mainstream" press avoidance of covering this ...whatever the "eff" you want to describe this "winger" hypocrisy as....
...no coverage of Bush's "meet up" at the White House with Jumblatt, eight months ago....and no coverage of Cheney's speech, this week:
http://query.nytimes.com/search/quer...ll&sort=newest
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&um...nG=Search+News
<h3>I started this thread because I'm amazed that anyone believes that the press is biased AGAINST the Bush administration or against it's "quirks".....</h3>
.....and I suspect now that the entire, "right wing blogosphere" is literally wired to an "on/off" switch....and in the Jumblatt example, the switch is most definitely....in the "off" position.....
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http://thinkprogress.org/2006/03/10/...t-anti-semite/
March 10, 2006
Cheney Quotes Racist Anti-Semite to Demonstrate ‘Progress’ In the Middle East
Vice President Dick Cheney, in a <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/07/AR2006030700739.html">speech this week</a> to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee:
Over the past four years, other free nations have risen in the broader Middle East. … Across that region, the political dialogue has been transformed — and politicians, scholars, students, and men and women from every walk of life are talking about freedom, equal rights, and accountable institutions of government. One leader in Lebanon said: “When I saw the Iraqi people voting, it was the start of a new Arab world…The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing. The Berlin Wall has fallen. We can see it.”
The “leader in Lebanon” whose analysis Cheney apparently trusts is Walid Jumblatt, a racist anti-Semite who has celebrated the deaths of U.S. soldiers and referred to Condoleezza Rice as “oil-colored.” A few of Jumblatt’s low lights:
– “We are all happy when U.S. soldiers are killed [in Iraq] week in and week out. The killing of U.S. soldiers in Iraq is legitimate and obligatory.” [Link]
– “The oil axis is present in most of the U.S. administration, beginning with its president, vice-president and top advisers, including (Condoleezza) Rice, who is oil-colored, while the axis of Jews is present with Paul Wolfowitz, the leading hawk who is inciting (America) to occupy and destroy Iraq.” [Link]
– “In November 2003, the United States revoked Jumblatt’s diplomatic visa for wishing out loud that Wolfowitz had been killed in a Baghdad rocket attack.” [Link]
So why did Cheney quote Jumblatt? Maybe because they’re the only two who believe that reform in Lebanon was inspired by the Iraq war: “‘I’ve never heard it from anybody except Walid Jumblatt,’ laughs Jamil Mroue, editor-in-chief of Beirut’s Daily Star newspaper.”
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....if you are the president of the US....I guess you can do anything you want to....as long as you have a supportive wife:
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...and to think....that this is during David Horowitz's and Council for National Policy's Salem Communication's, 1200 radio station network, and the Salem Talk radio nutcase talk hosts', and Salem's townhall.com 's
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http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles...3-38314cca6f09
<h2>Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week</h2>
By Frontpagemag.com
FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, September 21, 2007
Beginning on October 22, student groups across the nation will hold Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week on their campuses. These protest weeks will feature a series of events designed to bring a message to these academic communities that challenges most of what students are taught about the so-called War on Terror both in the classroom and on the quad.
The Week’s events will include speeches about Islamo-Fascism by prominent figures, including former Senator Rick Santorum (Penn State, Temple and UPenn), Sean Hannity (Columbia), Ann Coulter (Tulane and USC), Dennis Prager (UC Santa Barbara), Robert Spencer (Brown, Dartmouth, University of Rhode Island, and DePaul), Daniel Pipes (Northeastern and UPenn), David Horowitz (Columbia, Emory, Ohio State, Michigan and Wisconsin), Michael Ledeen (Maryland), Nonie Darwish (UCLA and Berkeley), Wafa Sultan (Stanford) and radio talk show hosts Melanie Morgan (San Francisco State), Michael Medved (University of Washington), Martha Zoeller (Georgia Tech), Alan Nathan (George Mason), Mark Larson (to be named) and many others.
<h3>A major theme of the Week will be the oppression of women in Islam.</h3> The photo accompanying this article, which shows a teenage girl buried before being stoned to death for alleged sexual offenses, will serve as the poster for the protest Week. The stoning took place in Iran.
The plight of Muslim women will be featured at “teach-in” panels and also at sit-ins in Women’s Studies Departments, designed to protest the absence of courses that focus on Islamic gynophobia. <h2>The silence of Women’s Studies departments in the face of this oppression is a national outrage......</h2>
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Our first lady's silence and timely endorsement of that symbol of the oppression of Muslim women....the compulsory wearing of the hajib...should have given David Horowitz and his parrots on campuses....apoplexy....
Dick....George...Laura....you're "antics" have been hushed up by your "noise machine"....and they must be bursting at the gills to "let it out"....why do you hate America? Time to loudly and, in unison...scapegoat some poor unsuspecting democrat...for some contrived, bullshit, reason....dontcha thinK?
If not....the noise makers, forced into silence.... will implode...and we can't have that....next year is an election year.....